What do you do for work?

[SnakeTrousers]

Just curious.

Currently I work at a paper processing factory where I spend 12 hours a day grabbing bits of cardboard off a conveyor belt and stacking them on pallets. Only work 3-4 days a week though, so it's aaalll goood.

 

[BathorysGraveland2]

At the moment I'm just working as a volunteer at a local Visitor Information Centre. The reason being is chiefly because in Australia if you're financially supported by the government but aren't working you must do some volunteer work to cover it until you get full-time employment. It's just placeholder work really until I get a proper, full-time job. That said, the experience and something to put on my resume (which is currently empty) is also quite nice.

And if nothing else, it does get me out of the house a bit more often.

The actual "work" is very simple. Tell any inquiring visitors where things are/what they can do in the area, help shift equipment around if needed and the rest is spent drinking coffee and lounging around waiting for more customers. Since it's now winter here, and it's in a small town, the down time is quite regular.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

I'm a criminal background investigator working for a company that does pre-employment background checks both in the US and internationally. Most of my time is spent looking through court documents and police websites and calling courts. If you live in Harris County in Texas and have recently applied for a job, chances are good that I've looked up your name and know all your dirty little misdeeds.

 

[Tiger King]

I used to work in engineering, mostly in the renewable energy sector.
Currently I am unemployed and spend my days as a house husband. It's pretty boring but it gives me time to pursue my hobbies.

 

[Zykon TheLich_v1legacy]

I work in the accommodation department of a university. I look after all the little darling first years that are usually away from home for the first time. Such little darlings.

 

[L. Declis]

Well, I am a part-time International Diplomacy student, and a part time English tutor (not teacher, god no, I couldn't handle a classroom again).

It pays well enough, but I am hoping to improve my Chinese well enough to the point where I can start looking for other jobs. Being an English tutor in China begins to take its toll very quickly.

 

[Queen Michael]

I handle the filing of papers in the government archives. I also do a bit of proofreading. It's the kind of not-quite a job you do to keep getting your government dole money.

 

[Colour Scientist]

I'm an Archivist/Records Manager.

It's what I studied for in university so I'm enjoying it. :3

 

[franticfarken]

I'm currently a part time student, working for an IT company about 20 hours a week.
I mostly do PC builds and user configuration, server monitoring and the grunt work like getting lunch for the company and flatpacking/throwing out cardboard.
When you're constantly ordering PC's, monitors and servers. You have to deal with So so so so much cardboard :S

 

[DanielBrown]

I got four extra jobs at the moment. Two of which I don't really go to anymore, but I still get job offers from them.
Delivery guy for a company that works with IKEA(fuck that job so fucking hard in the fucking fuck), unskilled worker for a very shady company, assembler/storeman(really not sure about the English translations) for a big company that offers slave wage and a month ago I got a job as a metalworker for a smaller company.
The last job is where I'm currently working full time and I really hope they'll hire me so I can quit the other jobs. Since I started there it's the first time I'm not considering going back to sleep when I wake up on a work day.

Could write more about the jobs if anyone's intrested, but I feel like I've done that tons of times the past few months so it's getting a bit dull.

 

[wooty]

I work in a food manufacturing factory, in the hygiene department, so its constantly under pressure and scrutiny which means the stress levels go through the roof around the mid point of the week. Get treated like shit, work with people who barely speak my language except for their favorite word "breaktime?", managers seems to think its ok to talk to grown adult like they're 5 years old. Just a big terrible mess really.

Its shit, really really shit, terribly boring, depressing and shit. So I am looking for new jobs and quickly. I'm so determined to leave this crap job that I was even up all night a few weeks ago looking up job vacancies in Canada. Yes, thats right, I want to escape this job so much that I'm even looking at moving to the other side of the planet.

 

[Death Carr]

I work 20-30 hours a week at Hungry Jacks
it's truly truly terrible, but it pays well enough for me to maintain my hobbies (read: Model kits and my computer)
I've been there for 8 months or so and I've been looking for another job the entire time

 

[Rot_At_The_Root]

I work as an IT Tech for a fitness education group of companies, I prep equipment, manage comms, server admin, account management, everything really.

For some reason I also change lightbulbs, fix doors, move desks and mount shit on the walls. This crap was not in my job description when I started.

 

[GabeZhul]

I'm working as a maintenance guy at a small train station of the local forest management company. In fact officially I am a communal worker, and according to my contract I'm supposed to work at logging sites, but instead I got assigned to the jack-of-all-trades brigade. I was painting a train car last week, the week before I was building a bridge and maintaining tourist trails, and the week before that I was doing masonry in the company kitchens.

It's a hectic work with low pay (roughly $300 a month, which is low even by Hungarian standards), but it's unsupervised work that lets me listen to audiobooks and teaching company lectures while I work as long as the job gets done and the boss is an okay fellow who allows me to leave every Friday so that I can attend my university lectures (I am getting my second degree on a correspondence course, hopefully this one will actually let me get a proper job).

The one problem is that I am working with my father, who is a train operator/tourist guide and who happens to be my polar opposite in every political, economical and philosophical way possible, plus a slave-driver. -.-'

 

[Casual Shinji]

I work at a library, which suits me okay since I can just focus my attention on categorizing shit and I don't really have to bother dealing with people. Sometimes someone will ask me where to find a certain book, but that's really it. The only downside is that my co workers are all middle aged women with whom I don't have much in common, and when there's little to no people coming in returning books (which happens often) I'm stuck doing fuck all. Also, it smells in the kids section.

 

[Dirkie]

I'm working at a small construction company where i make the shop drawings for steel construction, fences, stairs and just about anything made out of metal that's being welded or bolted together.
It's a full time job, and in the weekends i'm bookhunting when i feel like it.

 

[2xDouble]

I babysit grown, healthy adults who behave worse than toddlers and don't kill them.

 

[Blitsie]

Doing gaming promotions part time at the moment, been a bit of a dry spell lately but our company got hired by Warner Bros and we'll be doing some Mortal Kombat X tournaments in the next month or two, quite excited haha.

I love my job overall, we get to work at gaming expos so we meet up with all the developers (Ubisoft Montreal's developers are a truly chilled bunch of people) and promoting games means keeping them afterwards so my collection of t-shirts and games has been growing exponentially ever since I started. Good times.

 

[Guffe]

I'm a Police Officer, I graduated at the start of January and since then been unemployed, got a job offer last week that starts 25th of May and is short term for 3 months. Will be great to get back to work and hopefully the contract can be extended after the 3 months. Otherwise there's another spell of unemployment for x amount of time.

 

[DoPo]

Software engineer. I work on part of a larger enterprise product - I'm in the web team where we handle the website which is the UI, as well as REST tier and some server integration, so the main languages I work with are Java and JavaScript.